Re:Are We Really Engineers?
by xkeysc0re on Monday January 18, 2021 @03:57PM
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>the discipline is all of 20-30 years old.
You are right that software engineering is a relatively young field, but people have tried to apply engineering principles to software since at least the Fifties. The term itself was coined sometime in the early 60s and was used by the ACM in 1966.
You are right that software engineering is a relatively young field, but people have tried to apply engineering principles to software since at least the Fifties. The term itself was coined sometime in the early 60s and was used by the ACM in 1966.